Chapter 9-12

The religion that is linked to a belief in the divinity of the emperor and the sacredness of the Japanese nation is

• Shinto.

• Buddhism.

• Daoism.

• Confucianism.

A non-religious title held by the military and political leader who captured Baghdad and took power from the Abbasids was

• vizier

• sultan

• minaret

• Hijrah

Whose request for military assistance from the Europeans provided the excuse for launching the Crusades?

• the Cistercian monk Bernard of Clairvaux

• Pope Urban II

• the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus

• the German emperor Frederick Barbarossa

Why did the Black Death reach Eastern Europe and Russia four years later than it reached the island of Sicily?

• The plague was brought to Europe by rats on merchant ships, so it affected people living in coastal areas on trade routes first and then gradually moved inland toward the north and east.

• Scientists in Eastern Europe and Russia were able to develop treatments that significantly slowed the advance of the disease.

• At first Eastern Europeans and Russians were not vulnerable to the plague, but eventually it mutated and was able to infect them.

• It took four years before someone who was carrying the plague decided to make a journey eastward, and this finally led to Eastern Europeans being infected.

The Mongols may have been prevented from conquering western Europe by

• the Himalaya.

• the Gupta Empire.

• Genghis Khan’s death.

• Marco Polo.

The king who engineered the election of a Frenchman, Clement V, as pope was

• Gregory IX

• Philip IV

• Henry V

• Louis XI

By the time the Umayyad dynasty was established, the Arab Empire had already conquered

• the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

• the Persian Empire.

• southern France and Corsica.

• Switzerland

Buddhism was brought to China by

• merchants and missionaries.

• officials and soldiers.

• Mongols.

• neo-Confucianists.

The popes’ behavior during the Great Schism caused people like John Wyclif and John Hus to

• criticize the popes for their corruption and abuse of power.

• found new monastic orders.

• swear their allegiance to the popes who lived in Avignon, France.

• attempt to reconcile Christian teachings with the ideas of the Greek philosophers.

Heroic epic poems usually described

• the lives of saints.

• Aristotle’s works.

• battles and political contests.

• love for a lady.